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donohoe
32,641karma·3,769submissions·August 19, 2009
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I build web things for fun and sometimes I post on the social platforms
Web: https://donohoe.dev
Bluesky: @donohoe.dev
I build, or rebuild, big parts of media companies. Previously at Hearst, The New Yorker, Quartz, and NYT
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It’s important to note the use-cases here. A lot of this discussion treats "CMS" as a single thing, but the requirements vary wildly depending on scale: one blogger versus a five-person mark…
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I really do not know how true that is - or to what extent it matters.
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Ah. I understand your circumstances better. Short answer - I wouldn’t deploy menu changes. That’s usually low-lift that I would do it manually. If I was doing it in a recurring basis I would investiga…
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Wordpress has an amazing talent pool of experienced people. EmDash is starting from zero - but you have to start somewhere! I’m very happy with WP, but I’ll be cheering on EmDash if it gets momentum.…
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I think the security issue is that people trust random plugins without reviewing them. I’ve been running WP with small and large companies and no big security issues. You either build your own plugins…
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Huh? That’s not how i think you should be approaching that. I always run local, staging, and production sites. It’s easy to setup and deploy across.
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I hate chatbot for situations like this but I get the reasons here. That said, I was hoping to get info on how it actually performed - nothing. There is nothing to suggest there is a clear metric for …
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Typically most primary sources are public.
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Nope. CNN, CNBC, NYPost, Guardian all had stories up quickly, or around an hour. There are others too. UPDATED: Down-votes happen but disappointing since I'm stating facts. Heres some backup: The…
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The first Harry Potter ebook (with art) was about 1.3mb. The average news article text (only) is usually less than 20 kb.
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“North America puts man on the moon” Yes. Yes it is.
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Chuck Norris doesn't upvote on Hacker News. His presence alone sends posts to the front page. No more.
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Fixed the URL for Nautilus. Updates will roll in over the next 24 hours as tests happen and it averages out. Its on my roadmap to auto-update the URL over time to avoid this very thing! Thx to those w…
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Here is the most frustrating part: Publishers could create efficient fast-loading web pages if they prioritized it (and a rare few do) but its just not a priority for most even though its in their bes…
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I started on this when project when I was at The New Yorker. I had just manage to convince people to give us space to do web performance optimization - and then we had to drop it quickly to work on AM…